What does OUR mean?

Definitions for OUR
ər, ˈaʊ ər; unstressed ɑrour

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Wiktionary

  1. ourpronoun

    Belonging to us.

  2. ourpronoun

    Of, from, or belonging to the nation, region, or language of the speaker.

  3. ourpronoun

    used before a person's name to indicate that the person is in one's family, or is a very close friend.

    I'm going to see our Terry for tea.

  4. Etymology: From oure, from ure, user, from unseraz, from no-s-ero-. Cognate with ús, uns, onze, unser, vor.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Ourpron. poss.

    Etymology: ure , Saxon.

    You shall
    Lead our first battle, brave Macduff, and we
    Shall take upon us what else remains. William Shakespeare.

    Our wit is given almighty God to know,
    Our will is given to love him being known;
    But God could not be known to us below,
    But by his works which through the sense are shown.
    So in our little world this soul of ours
    Being only one, and to one body ty’d,
    Doth use on divers objects divers powers,
    And so are her effects diversify’d. Davies.

    Edmund, whose virtue in this instance,
    So much commands itself, you shall be ours. William Shakespeare.

    Thou that hast fashion’d twice this soul of ours,
    So that she is by double title thine, Davies.

    Be ours, who e’er thou art,
    Forget the Greeks. John Denham.

    Taxallan, shook by Montezuma’s powers,
    Has, to resist his forces, call’d in ours. Dryden.

    Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge, it is thinking makes what we read ours: it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections, unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength. John Locke.

    Their organs are better disposed than ours, for receiving grateful impressions from sensible objects. Francis Atterbury.

ChatGPT

  1. our

    "Our" is a possessive pronoun used to indicate ownership or association with a group of people that includes the speaker and one or more other individuals. It suggests a sense of belonging or inclusion.

  2. Our

    The term "our" is a possessive pronoun that indicates possession or ownership by a group of people. It is used to describe something that belongs to or is associated with the speaker and one or more others.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Our

    of I

  2. Etymology: [OF. -our.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Our

    owr, adj. and pron. pertaining or belonging to us—prov. Ourn.—prons. Ours, possessive of We; Ourself′, myself (as a king or queen would say):—pl. Ourselves (-selvz′), we, not others: us. [A.S. úre, gen. pl. of , we.]

Editors Contribution

  1. our

    Belong to a team.

    Our team is accountable for our choices, decisions and results.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 16, 2020  


  2. our

    Relating to people.

    Our family love to get together and show our love to each other.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 21, 2020  


  3. our

    Relating to us.

    Our collective unity, solidarity, cohesion, agreement and heartfelt desire for the optimum health, human rights and shared prosperity for us all is our focus and we are doing it together moment by moment.


    Submitted by MaryC on April 26, 2020  

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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'OUR' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #101

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'OUR' in Written Corpus Frequency: #121

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of OUR in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of OUR in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of OUR in a Sentence

  1. Jackson Mthembu:

    You can't take that decision, in our view. That decision can be taken by the people of South Africa. Not anybody sitting in some cozy office to decide and be that arrogant and decide what it is that the people can see or not see.

  2. Colombian President Ivan Duque:

    Colombia wants to lead a pact, a conservation pact, between the countries that have Amazon territory, we must understand the protection of our Mother Earth and our Amazon is a duty, a moral duty.

  3. Alan Westenskow:

    We thought the worst thing that happens is we get more people interested in our bonds.

  4. Sadie Robertson:

    This is three in a row for [ brother ] Willie's kids and we're excited about it, sadie Robertson know, it's really pretty amazing because when the show first started, I think our only trepidation about doing a show where Sadie Robertson're kind of thrusting Sadie Robertson kids and Sadie Robertson teenagers into the limelight, I think that was all of our greatest fears, and for me as my grandkids because my kids are older.

  5. Pradip Subba:

    Waiting for help is more torturous than doing this ourselves, our hands are the only machine right now.

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